Friday evening at the festival

For most of yesterday, I was either working (at my desk in my office) or running back and forth between here and the Carriage Festival in the arena. So yesterday’s evening session was the first chance I had to sit in the stands and watch the pleasure-driving show … and to get photos!

To usher in the evening’s session, Raymond Tuckwiller played several “calls of the road” on the coaching horn:

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The first class for the evening was the Park Division:

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The Tandem class included several beautiful turnouts:

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Next, eight single-horse competitors competed for top honors in their Turnout class:

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The evening’s coaching competitors had both an Appointments class and a Timed Obstacles class:

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The final class of the evening was the hotly contested Costume class:

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The show continues all day today, and I’m about to head over there to take more photos!